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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

brucine

, fr. James

Bruce

, a Scottish traveler.]

(Chem.)

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of

Strychnos

, especially in the

. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also

brucia

and

brucina

Structure diagram of brucine

brucine ‎(uncountable)

(organic chemistry) An alkaloid related to strychnine, found in several plant species, notably Strychnos nux-vomica (nux vomica).

alkaloid related to strychnine, found in nux vomica